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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Calibri">New AID/WATCH
report released</span></b></p><b><br></b>

















<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Dear
Supporter,</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Today
AID/WATCH releases our new report <i>Off the
Rails: AusAID and the troubled Cambodian railways project.</i></span></p>

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<p style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#262626" lang="EN-US">This report reveals that </span><span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#262626" lang="EN-US">an
AusAID supported railway rehabilitation project in Cambodia has led to the
displacement of hundreds of people with NGOs advocating on behalf of those
communities issued with formal warnings and even shut down. </span></span></p>

<p style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0cm"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:#262626" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>

<p style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0cm"><span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#262626" lang="EN-US">AID/WATCH have been monitoring this project since 2009
over concerns around aid money funding a defacto privatisation project for the
benefit of an Australian private company (Toll Holdings).</span></span></p>

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<p style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0cm"><span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#262626" lang="EN-US">AusAID has contributed more than 20 million dollars
to the project in cooperation with the Asian Development Bank and the
Government of Cambodia.</span></span></p>

<p style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0cm"><span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#262626" lang="EN-US"> </span></span></p>


<p style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0cm"><span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#262626" lang="EN-US">AID/WATCH recommends that AusAID immediately suspend
the project and investigate the claims and advocates for credible resettlement
guidelines and proactive transparency when Australian companies benefit from
aid money.</span></span></p>

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<p style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0cm"><span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#262626" lang="EN-US">Please find the report attached or download it from
our website <a href="http://www.aidwatch.org.au/publications/off-the-rails-ausaid-and-the-troubled-cambodian-railways-project" target="_blank">here.</a></span></span></p>





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